Search results for "Joan Micklin Silver"

A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincidences.

The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with…

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her…

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to…

The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the ’70s amid rumors that…

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he’s molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York’s Lower East Side in…